Re: [PATCH 4/7] net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: Enable refout clock for RGMII

From: Andrew Lunn

Date: Wed Jun 24 2026 - 11:40:12 EST


On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 04:44:41PM +0800, Yanan He wrote:
> Some Rockchip GMAC integrations use clk_mac_refout as an external PHY
> reference clock even when the MAC is configured for RGMII.
>
> RV1126 boards can route CLK_GMAC_ETHERNET_OUT to the external PHY as a
> 25 MHz reference clock. If the driver does not acquire and enable this
> clock in RGMII mode, the common clock framework may disable it as unused
> and the PHY can lose its reference clock.
>
> Enable the refout clock handling for RGMII in addition to RMII.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yanan He <grumpycat921013@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c
> index 8d7042e68926..f6fdc0c5b475 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c
> @@ -1112,7 +1112,8 @@ static int rk_gmac_clk_init(struct plat_stmmacenet_data *plat)
> bsp_priv->clk_enabled = false;
>
> bsp_priv->num_clks = ARRAY_SIZE(rk_clocks);
> - if (phy_iface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RMII)
> + if (phy_iface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RMII ||
> + phy_iface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII)

Apart from Heiko commenting that this patch is completely wrong, there
are 4 RGMII modes, not one. You should of used
phy_interface_mode_is_rgmii().

Andrew

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